Browsing: Scientists

#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller–Over 100,000 Copies in Print! “Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic…

“Joan Didion at a start-up” (Rebecca Solnit): When Anna Wiener left behind the publishing world for San Francisco, she witnessed Silicon Valley’s wild, unchecked culture firsthand… This “absorbing, unsettling” New York Times bestseller (The Boston Globe) is “a literary-minded outsider’s insider account” (The Atlantic).

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • An MIT astrophysicist reinvents herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the…

After 23 years as a paramedic, Matthew Sias switched careers to become a mortician. With humor and compassion, he chronicles the revelations of helping people in crisis — from the trauma unit to the funeral home.

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, “richly detailed” story of the women of Walt…

‘Terrific and enthralling’ New Scientist Fifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land…

What happens when a forty-something, community college sociology professor learns that her mother—a charming, passive-aggressive, and needy woman who hasn’t…

With over 2,500 five-star Goodreads ratings: A forensic anthropologist reveals how her career has shaped her understanding of life and death — and how she’s helped solve numerous crimes. “A perceptive study of a subject both deeply uncomfortable and uncommonly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly).

Based on a true story, this “captivating” novel (Kirkus Reviews) follows Hedy Lamarr, a beautiful Hollywood starlet and brilliant scientist with a groundbreaking idea to help defeat the Nazis. “A shining portrait of a complicated woman… Readers will be enthralled” (Publishers Weekly).

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology’s most important…